Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1887-01-29
Farm and Garden Notes.

Farm and Garden Notes.
Save the best potatoes in the
most prolific hills for seed.
Don't waste food on COWS unable
to make a decent return.
Old, we'll dried corn should be
fed first. so as to give the new corn
as much time as possible for dry
ing.
Know by test, and not by guess.
which is the most protltalh. COW in
your herd, and why she iSllle best.
Weighing a cows milk will not
cause her to give any more, but
may cause her owner to substitute
better one.
Turkeys are profitable birds to
raise, for they are marketable, to
some extent. at fair prices through
out the year.
Manure from the hen house is the
best fertilizer usually produced on
the farm-equal TO much. of the
commercial guano.
Using V.shaped trough, with
slaked lime in the bottom, for hog
feeding, is said to keep off cholera
from the porkerS.
Put your brain into this winters
dairy management, and see ifyou
cannot make it the best dairy win
ter in your experience.
The farmer who gets the most
eggs is the one who gets up earliest
and secures to his flock a good,
warm breakfast by daylight.
The most successful shepherd of
the future will have his mutton on
the market as regularly and in us
good condition as his wool. The
same man will make both products
as good as possible.
a writer, whose head is level,
says: "Clover IN a great aid III cut
ting down the cost of Il bushcl of
wheat. Wheat should never be
Sown without it. 1t vcntilatcs the
soil and tears it to atoms.n
Oats come the nearest to filing
all the requisites of complete food;
yet, if they are crushed, the addi
ton Of little PEI; meal would be
an Improvement in cases where ex
ira eXcrtion is demanded.
Winter is the time when young
trees are injured by rabbits, mice,
etc. a mound OF earth will keep
off The latter, and wrapping above
the roots with tarred cotton cloth
will discourage the rabbits.
Young stock, once allowed to run
down, never fully recover from the
effects thereof. OF inferior feed
and lice HE first generally brings
the second. Poor feeding is Scan-
dalous; vcrmin added toit is brutal.
The American Agriculturist re
marks: No animal does as well as
it should that is not comfortable
Study the comfort Of all kind of
stock. Regular feeding, wholesome
feed. pure water and comfortable
lairs are essential,
In this country it has been de-
monstrated to the satisfaction of
many critical minds that lime
stone soil has a beneficial effect up
CO. ag.uuita..a,sa.l.'osT0red and TearedSby
physical tasks. A limestone soil
bears on its bosom the finest devel
opment Of the human race, physi
cally speaking.
Do not allow stock, especially
work horses and mich COWS, to
drink ice cold water. TO take the
chill from water costs so little that
it is hardly to be considered in the
expense account. Some OF the
more advanced stock keepers now
will not allow any of their stock to
drink ice cold water.
Nothing is quite so good for
young pigs as their mothers milk.
When old enough to wean take off
the best and put them in separate
pen, with abundance of good feed.
Keep the remainder with the SOW
one or two weeks longer, or until
they have evencd up somewhat
with the others.
Stable manure should be protect
cd from the weather. Exposed as
it often is in the open barn yard,
it is soaked by the rains and baked
by tile sun, and its own termenta-
ton burns up that which the wealth
er does not reach. Barns with
good cellars under the stables can
be best arranged for tho proper
care of manure, especially the Ii
1uid portion. Where cellars are
not, low pools in the barn yard
should he provided.
The Elements Of Gentility.